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and all leave the ship if I was suffered to come on board, I told
him he should not be concerned at it at all, for I would stay on
shore. I only desired he would take care and send me all my
necessary things on shore, and leave me a sufficient sum of money,
and I would find my way to England as well as I could.

This was a heavy piece of news to my nephew; but there was
no way to help it, but to comply with it; so, in short, he went on
board the ship again, and satisfied the men that his uncle had
yielded to their importunity, and had sent for his goods from on
board the ship; so that matter was over in a very few hours, the
men returned to their duty, and I began to consider what course I
should steer.

I was now alone in the remotest part of the world, as I think I
may call it ; for I was nearly three thousand leagues by sea further
off from England than I was at my island. Only, it is true, I might
travel here by land over the Great Mogul’s country to Surat;
might go from thence to Bassora by sea, up the Gulf of Persia; and
from thence might take the way of the caravans over the desert of
Arabia to Aleppo and Scanderoon; from thence by sea again to
Italy, and so over land into France: and this put together might
be at least a full diameter of the globe, but if it were to be
measured, I suppose it would appear to be a great deal more.

I had another way before me, which was to wait for some
English ships, which were coming to Bengal from Achen, on the
island of Sumatra, and get passage on board them for England ;
but as I came hither without any concern with the English
Kast India Company, so it would be difficult to go from hence without
their licence, unless with great favour of the captains of the ships,
or of the Company’s factors, and to both I was an utter stranger.

Here I had the particular pleasure, speaking by contraries, to
see the ship sail without me; a treatment, I think, a man in my
circumstances scarce ever met with, except from pirates running
away with a ship, and setting those that would not agree with
their villany on shore. Indeed this was next door to it both ways.
However, my nephew left me two servants, or rather, one com-
panion and one servant; the first was clerk to the purser, whom
he engaged to go with me, and the other was his own servant. I